One day a Princess came to the beach. She built a castle. But it wasn't long before a rotten irate arrived. . . A day at the beach becomes a wonderful adventure in this picture book by Allan Baillie, the acclaimed author of Drac and the Gremlin. With stunning illustrations by Caroline Margerl, this magical story celebrates play and the imagination.
In Cambodia after the Vietnamese War, Vithy learns to overcome social upheaval, a hostile jungle, and his own inability to trust, in order to rescue his older brother.
The long barrel of a skeletal gun coughed streams of fire into the night. In a few moments the deck of the fishing boat burst into flame. Pat has joined his father on an old boat off the coast of a troubled Indonesian island to search for treasure. But as they follow a trail of clues to the world's richest shipwreck the violence on the island coils around them. In this powerful, action-packed thriller, master storyteller Allan Baillie takes us on a quest where the dangers are real and the cost of a mistake could be life.
Something was in the rings that shouldn't have been there. Life on the remote moon Ord is dangerous. Random eruptions in the ice, extreme cold, loneliness and loss: it's all Dece knows. Until one day he sees a mysterious object caught in the rings of the nearby gas planet, Cotal. With no choice but to investigate, what he will find is so extraordinary that it is almost beyond understanding.
Brian and his parents move into a spooky house whose previous owner was obviously a witch, and quite soon strange things start to happen. After a frightening encounter in the cellar, Brian's cap catches the culprit, a bored household imp. Now Brian has to devise some way of keeping him under control.
SUMMARY : Three young adolescents, forced together by rising floodwaters, rescue the father and younger sister of the adolescent girl when her father attempts to drive over a flooded bridge to reach them.
After his bent cop father has given evidence against colleagues, Steve's family relocate to a country town, where his father's shame affects the way Steve performs in a basketball final.
Summary: Tim was small for his age and always felt inferior, but found that courage bore no relation to size and learned to survive in rugged Franklin River country.
This book is a fascinating collection of short tales about a diverse range of subjects, covering the whole continent and beyond, from the Dreamtime to the 20th century, which tell us something about our past.
What could be in the mysterious box which Col dives so desperately to recover from under the sea? Will the island, which Lew had felt was his own, ever be the same again? Eagle Island is a gripping adventure story. When chance brings these two conflicting characters together on a lonely island on the Great Barrier Reef, their encounter turns into a deadly game of hide-and-seek."--Back cover.
Cat scooped leaves to add more over her body and then lay still. She could hear crashing from above . . . When Cat is dropped off at her grandmother's hut in a remote part of the bush, she suddenly finds herself on her own. What has happened, and what can she do? Piecing together clues, Cat starts making sense of things . . . but not the sort of sense she was hoping for. A gritty, thrilling adventure story from one of the best!
Fantasy novel for primary school-age readers. Little Bay Village needs a wizard to solve a problem for them, but Meg and Russ soon learn that the wizard they have found may be more trouble than he's worth. Illustrated throughout. Author's previous titles include 'The China Coin', shortlisted for the 1992 Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the 1992 Adelaide Festival Literary Award and winner of the 1992 Australian Multicultural Children's Literature Award, and 'Drac and the Gremlin', winner of the 1989 Children's Book Council of Australia Picture Book of the Year Award.
30,000 years ago, before the pyramids are built, before the Ice Age comes and goes, and before Neanderthals become extinct, the Yam tribe live in peace on Bird Island. But the Crocodile tribe have other ideas . . . The ferocious Crocodile warriors have already killed Bent Beak's pa, and now they seem determined to take out his whole tribe. The only way to survive is to flee the island. But where will they go? As the Yam tribe brave the perils of the sea, will they survive the voyage into the unknown, and what awaits them just over the horizon? An enthralling story about the plight of the very first boat people, of their desperation, bravery and hope.
In this collection of short stories, the author looks at many sorts of relationships, showing sides of people that are by turns profound, unexpected, comic and deeply moving.
Playing in the backyard, a young girl, pretending to be Drac, the Warrior Queen of Tirnol Two, unites with a young boy, pretending to be the Gremlin, to save the White Wizard's planet from the Terrible Tongued Dragon.
When the fury of the cyclone seems to have passed, Reene and Ian crawl from safety to see a rusty freighter on their beach. The abandoned freighter seems to call them. But it's a trap ...
Three Australian stories. Danger can strike from anywhere: an angry river in flood, a dangling ski chair or a mysterious tunnel that leads to places unknown. 8 yrs+
Yates was cautiously lifting a cooked and curried crescent to his mouth. He stopped and looked at Pettit. 'It's a cockroach,' he said. 'I'm going to eat it.' 'What in hell for?' 'To find out what it tastes like.' Here is a journey that begins with a shuddering disaster in the Himalayas, and ends with an ill-starred romance on Mars. In between are adventures down the rivers of Cambodia and Laos, battles with bulls in Australian country towns, encounters with French agents, freelance photography assignments, handbag-snatchers in Naples, thong-flingers in Rangoon, bread queues in Afghanistan, and more. This streetwise collection from master storyteller Allan Baillie spans centuries of cross-cultural relationships, civil wars and expeditions.
Omar's kakek (grandfather) complains the boy has forgotten the old ways, the old magic of spinning tops and shadow puppets; but Omar makes his kakek a mysterious present, and together they dance a great traditional kite across the sky. A multicultural story in picture book format, ages 6 - 10.
When Ben Cross runs away from his brutal uncle, he is looking for adventure. But he finds much more than that when he joins the bushranger Thunderbolt and becomes the cockatoo-or lookout-for the bushranger's gang. In between raiding cattle stations, inns, stores and mail coaches, Ben befriends Thunderbolt's wife, Mary Ann, helping in her endless hunt for food and hiding places in the wilderness. But at the end of a year of running from the law, of dramatic rescue and desperate shootouts, both Ben and Thunderbolt know they must give up the bushranging life. If they can. . .
LEGENDS is a collection of short stories written by Allan Baillie, one of Australia's best known writers for young people, about a wide range of Australian people, places and events which have acquired legendary status. The diverse range of subjects in this collection covers the whole continent and beyond, from the Dreamtime to the 20th century. The stories include: The Rainbow Serpent, Pemulwuy, Buckley, The Mahogany ship, Eliza Fraser, Phar Lap, Fisher's Ghost, Clancy of the Overflow, Crooked Mick, Beersheeba, The Don, Kokoda Trail and many others. The stories are particularly suitable for reluctant readers: they range in length from a paragraph to one and a half pages; they cover a diverse range of subjects; they are well written in language which less able readers can cope with; they are presented in a magazine format; they provide a good range of non-fiction text for classroom use.
Collection of twelve short stories for adolescents written by award-winning Australian authors. Stories are of love, sex, embarrassment, alternate realities and death. Includes biographical notes. Contributors include Allan Baillie and Gary Crew.
A lonely boy in the outback... a harsh Australian drought... an old goldmining town... a dam that's drying up and revealing something rising out of the mud...
Ian first met Abbie the orangutan when they were trapped together on a sinking freighter in the middle of a cyclone. Now Ian is taking Abbie back home, giving her freedom in the jungles of Borneo. But it's not as simple as he thought it would be. There is something much worse than a cyclone waiting for them this time ... The thrilling sequel to Wreck!
When the Bad Guys, alias a group of four boys from the city, holiday at a camping ground, they find their rampages blocked by the Nerds and Wild Alice and her Tribe, and their amusing rivalry leads to hilarious battles.
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